What exactly does psychological warfare mean?
Although I don’t think there is a single and concise definition of psychological warfare, we can try to look at it from the perspective of its universally accepted concept. The commonly accepted definition of psychological warfare or psychological operations (psyops) as experts in the field call it is the repeated bombardment with planned propaganda and psychosomatic elements as well as the use of information as a weapon of war. When I am talking about war, I mean both symmetric and asymmetric wars. Similarly, when it comes to information, there are those based on actual facts and those that are fabricated or tailored to serve a specific purpose. Generally speaking, regardless of its definitions or objectives, psychological operation involves the use of sophisticated methods to influence the opinion, emotions, attitudes and behaviors of people so as to lure and compel them into conforming to desired political views. Taking this as the commonly accepted definition, we can say that psych
